AG’s Department says Australia's extradition legislation prohibits a person being surrendered to another country for an offence punishable by death.
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The Sydney Morning Herald quoted a spokesman for the Attorney-General’s Department as saying Australia’s extradition legislation did not allow a person to be surrendered to another country for an offence punishable by death unless the country had given Australia an undertaking that the death penalty would not be carried out.